Thanks for that – I despise the Breitbart lot and will re-do my investigation on the issue.

He won because he paid off Stormy and Karen although I think that evangelicals would’ve stayed with him as they are now.

And you believed him?

And you believed him?

According to research found in Timothy Carney’s books (as reported by World) “Alienated America” (Harper 2019) Trump’s support while seeking the Republican nomination came from “white evangelicals who do not go to church.” Carney’s research shows that “two out of 3 of most frequent church attenders voted against Trump, but nearly 2 out of 3 of those who call themselves evangelicals but never go to church (a contradiction in terms) voted for him.”

His point of broad brush identification of a “white evangelical” is an important observation. It is important to differentiate with those who self identify as evangelical and those who are truly “practicing” evangelicals. Carney points out that Trump did the worst in highly churched Sioux County, Iowa for example, as compared to other counties in Iowa.

The article in World goes on to point out that Trump’s strongest support came from those “unlikely to be in church but highly likely to say religion was important to them.”

By the way, early on World took a significant amount of heat because they went on record to discourage voting for Trump. You can check out the rest of the article here: https://world.wng.org/2019/04/unchurched_election

I have some friends who are pretty staunch Trump fans. However, I have many more (who would be classified as evangelical regular church attenders) who take issue with a good bit of what Trump says and does, yet they feel they chose the least of the evils when it came down to Hillary or Trump. I think it is unfair and going too far to say “that white evangelicals as a group see the world about like Donald Trump.” At least there needs to be a clarification of the definition of “white evangelical” and I think the data shows that true evangelicals (those who go to church regularly) do not blindly buy into Trump and his agenda.

As far as Russian interference playing a part in the close election, I think the fake Steele Dossier played a significant part in the elections as well which has been funded by those who sought to influence the election. So perhaps it wouldn’t have been as close had it not been that. It will be interesting to see what the results of AG’s research into how the Steele’s dossier was funded and who pushed it.

Thanks for listening / reading